2023-05-24 18:50:46
Demonstrations on the Croisette are well and truly prohibited. The Council of State rejected, this Wednesday, an appeal filed by associations against the ban on demonstrations in Cannes by the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes, announces the professor of public law Paul Cassia, one of the depositaries of the request.
“The Council of State validates, two days after the public hearing and one hour before the demonstration planned by Adelico (the Association for the Defense of Constitutional Liberties, editor’s note) on the Croisette, the principle of an a priori ban to demonstrate decided by the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes during the Cannes Film Festival, ”tweeted the professor of public law.
The association planned to organize a demonstration this Wednesday afternoon, on a perimeter where the prefecture had previously prohibited any gathering, for security reasons. A ban deemed draconian by the association.
A justified decree, according to the Council of State
But, for the Council of State, the decree issued by the prefecture remains justified because of the influence of the Cannes Festival, the need to secure the perimeter of the event, and the impossibility of mobilizing resources “in sus for the accompaniment and the surveillance of demonstrations in this perimeter”. In addition, the Council of State considers that the decree of the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes does not constitute “a serious and manifestly illegal attack on a fundamental freedom”.
Several actions were carried out during the Cannes Film Festival to challenge the pension reform promulgated in April. Last Friday, employees of the hotel sector gathered on the forecourt of the Carlton hotel, a place long associated with the film festival. This Tuesday, around 160 people, according to the prefecture, gathered in the morning in front of Cannes station, outside the perimeter prohibited by the prefecture.
At the same time, a gas and electricity cut occurred in the city, notably depriving the central police station of power. Many restaurants were deprived of gas, causing disruptions during lunch service, especially on the beaches. Three men, employees of GRDF and Enedis, were arrested “in flagrante delicto” for having cut off gas and electricity in part of the city, according to a police source.
At the end of April, the CGT Energy had mentioned “energy disturbances”, aimed in particular at the Cannes event, in other words projectors which could go out, due to lack of current. However, no cuts have occurred within the Festival since its kick-off last Tuesday. The festival will end next Saturday.
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